Learning to play natural minor scales

The "Secrets to Playing Piano By Ear" course covers everything from the basics and fundamentals to Cmin13 (b9b5) chords. The following lesson focuses on chapter seven from the course. If you are already familiar with how to play natural minor scales, you may skip this lesson.

Learning to play natural minor scales (04)

Note: Please pay close attention to this lesson as you will need to know minor scales when forming minor chords.

Note: Disregard the "SLXYZ" numbers (if any) as they refer to sound examples. Our 300-pg course comes with a CD with over 330 sound examples which can be heard with the click of a button. (Example: SL003)

This concludes lesson #4. If you haven’t read our article on "Learning to Play Absolutely Any Song by Ear in Virtually Minutes," click here

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“Minor scales,” are no different to “natural minor scales.” It is just easier to say “Minor scales” because it is shorter. You would state that it is natural once you start getting into other types of minor scales like harmonic and melodic.